Call for participation in the fall 2024 program

NOBALIS partners are inviting the students and student-staff teams working on an food and biotech related ideas to the NOBALIS Entrepreneurial and Innovation Capacity Development (EICD) programme for food, biotechnology and bioresource start-ups in the spring of 2024.

For whom?

Student and student staff teams from the NOBALIS partner institutions:

Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU),
Estonian University of Life Sciences (EMÜ),
Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technology (LBTU),
Linnaeus University (LNU)
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU).

Teams

2- 5 people teams.

The program will offer an opportunity to find a team.

Activities

The programme supports the development of the initial ideas related to new products/services in food, biotech and biotechnology towards valid business models. The program will take place over 3 month period combining joint online sessions and events in the each university.

Hackathon and Matchmaking event on March 6th at 13- 17 CET: ideation and preliminary development of initial ideas and team formulation (online)
Mentoring programme: teams receive mentoring and go through 3 intense development days focused on sustainable product development and MVP, sales and marketing, fundraising (public and private), pitching skills.
- Preliminary schedule (online sessions):
  - Session 1: March 20th 13- 16 CET
  - Session 2: April 3rd 13- 16 CET
  - Session 3: April 17th 13- 16 CET
Demo Day: on May 2nd 14- 17 CET. Teams will pitch to an international jury.

Prizes

€1000 prize to the best team + prizes from each university to their best teams
Hands on support for developing a business idea
Great international mentors in business and product development, marketing and sales, and other fields relevant to participating teams
Help with IP management, prototyping facilities & tools and building contacts with investors and industry

How to participate

Check out the leaflet.